Tullacommon

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullacommon, from 1,743 m² to 104,363 m² (10.44 ha, 25.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Tullacommon in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Jul 2025Conditional

  outline permission for one dwellinghouse, septic tank with percolation system, entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560450

• 19 Aug 2020Conditional

  demolish existing old cottage style dwelling and construct two storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20431

• 6 May 2020N/a

  construct two storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20212

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tullacommon.

Recorded monuments

• LA027-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating countryside. A subcircular area (dims. c. 20.7m N-S, 25.5m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth c. 4.9m, ext. H c. 1.15m) from ESE-W, and by a scarp from W-NW. A wide external fosse (Wth c. 3.3m) survives from ESE-NW. No visible entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tullacommon.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tullacommon.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Tullacommon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Tullacommon · Tulach Chuimín

Area

409,769 m² (40.98 ha, 101.26 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Ballybrophy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybrophy electoral division: 223 people in 72 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolowley (Mason), Coolowley (Plott), Gortnalee, Raheensheara, Raheensheara, Rathnaleugh

Placenames

Tullacommon on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.